Hackers' Pub

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Blaft Publications @blaft@mastodon.social

3/21/2026, 12:20:09 PM

Public

Y'all have not adequately appreciated how amazing vintage Gujarati pulp novel covers are

Nafrat by Kanu Bhagdev - pulp novel cover shows a man in a suit looking surprised as he walks past the dead body of another man in a suit. In the foreground, a lady in a yellow waist-knotted shirt is touching her hair and giving an alluring look at the camera

Leader by Kanu Bhagdev. A woman in a sleeveless yellow shirt and skirt poses in the foreground; in the background is a large newspaper page, with a dead body on a splat of blood and the silhouette of a pistol

Janamteep by H N Golibar. A dancing lady in a flamenco skirt dances on a movie clapboard held by two gloved hands, one of which also holds a bloody knife. There are handcuffs and a spotlight and a photographer also

RaatRani by H N Golibar -- a train emerges from the mouth of a giant skull. A lady in a salwar kameez runs toward it....

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